Those who want to see Epica @ Ozzfest, please follow the link and vote for us. Thanks in advance! OZZFEST

The biggest Dutch rock magazine: Oor has placed 'Consign to Oblivion' in the list of best releases of 2005!

Together with Kamelot, Epica is going to do their first Northern-American tour. Several gigs have already been confirmed and still more to come. So keep an eye out on the tour dates section!

Entry for The Road To Paradiso has ended from now. Thank you all for your massive support. We have been overwhelmed by your creativity and have seen great pictures and stories. Please remember only some of them can be placed in the book, so hold on to see if your contribution will be published in this unique new Epica Photo Sound Book.
As mentioned earlier the band wants the book to be made for the fans, but also by the fans. Therefor we would like to ask you to enter the poll on www.theroadtoparadiso.com and giving your insight on the content for the audio cd.

Transmission Records Netherlands BV and the British Plastic Head Distributions Ltd have agreed on an exclusive distribution deal concerning all Epica records!
Steve Beatty, the director of Plastic Head expects a lot about this cooperation.
Beatty: "I believe in Epica, they are one of the best female fronted metal bands in the world and have the same potential as Nightwish".

EPICA is the FIRST BAND EVER to manage to get into the Dutch Album Top 100 Chart with a book. This has never occurred before. The photo sound book ‘The Road To Paradiso’ enters at # 89 of the album charts, as controlled by Gfk Mega Charts.

Epica keeps on writing history! Last week by entering the charts at #89 with the photo sound book ‘The Road To Paradiso’ and this week by climbing up to #46!!!

Epica will make their first appearance in Finland on the Tuska festival in Helsinki on the first of July!

_________________Drifting into the lives...seep into the soul where emotions hide...
Dark skies were beating me down with shadows
Of deceit slashing at trust till it forever bleeds..
With doubt, with pain, with trust is ...pain...

Here's a little update on the new album. We've finished the drumrecordings and we can only say that Ariën is one of the most talented drummers in the world. We are very happy to have him on the new album! At the moment Ad is finishing his guitars, Yves is recording his bass, Mark is recording his grunts and next week Simone will start with her vocal recordings. So as you can see the recordings are in full process. We are really happy with the new material, this is definitely going to be our most heavy album by far! We can't wait to be playing these songs live for you guys! We have uploaded some pictures of the studio in the photo gallery. Also we're going to give a more detailed studio report on our forum so go and check it out!!

The new Epica DVD is postponed.
Transmission does not exist anymore. They are bankrupt.
Epica are currently searching for a new record label and will do everything to release DVD
It has to be a double DVD containing the huge concert given the 3rd of may 2006 @ Paradiso, Amsterdam, and some bonus (live, backstage) footages.
Maybe a live CD of the Paradiso gig will follow it
Trailer :
http://epica.nl/downloads/video/epica_a ... so_360.mov

Mark Jansen (Epica former, guitarist and vocal) wrote:

Don't worry the sound is better than before - we did a pre production on vocals which has a lot of advantages. We worked with Amanda again on the vocals and lyrics.
- we have recorded 4 guitar traces instead of 2 which make them sound really great.
- we have recorded the choirs in three days instead of 2, which costed a lot more but it sounds even better than the 2 previous albums.
- Miro is working on the stuff as well again and has more time to get into the details.
- Sascha is doing the mix AND mastering himself. All respect for Peter van het Riet for his mastering qualities but he always needed to satisfy someone from the record company as well (and sometimes it was a weird taste).
So I'm sure this is going to be the best Epica sound so far.
This production is 2 times bigger and takes 2 times longer compared to the other productions. So let's at least hope that it's also going to sound 2 times better!